Norway’s Daniel Andre Tande falls to the ground during the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Flying Hill Individual competition in Planica on March 25, 2021. (Photo by Jure Makovec/AFP Photo)

Pangolins in Crisis: Brent Stirton, South Africa; 1st place, Natural world and wildlife. “Pangolins are the world’s most illegally trafficked mammals, with an estimated one million trafficked to Asia in the last 10 years. Their scales are used in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine, and their meat is sold as a high-priced delicacy. As a result, pangolins are listed as critically endangered and anyone who trades or consumes them is breaking the law. This body of work exposes the trade, while exploring aspects of illegality and celebrating the people who are trying to save these animals”. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Sony World Photography Awards 2020)

A Police officer reacts to protestors outside the Piet Retief Magistrates court where the five accused in the shooting of the Coka brothers on the Pampoenkraal farm appeared, Mhkondo, Mpumalanga, South Africa on April 19, 2021. (Photo by Jacques Nelles)

Russia's Kamila Valieva performs during the Exhibition Gala at the Rostelecom Cup 2021 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Sochi on November 28, 2021. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)

A woman poses with a grenade launcher at a weapons exhibition during festivities marking Marines Day in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, November 24, 2018. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

A woman leaves sauna during the sauna marathon in Otepaa, Estonia on February 2, 2019. Participants have to track down, locate and visit designated saunas in the Otepaa area as fast as possible during the event. The team that completed all of the saunas in the shortest time wins. (Photo by Ints Kalnins/Reuters)

People walk past a man preaching along a train track in Ikeja district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 12, 2016. (Photo by Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)

A protester peeks out from behind of a banner as supporters of anti-immigrant activists and nationalists march to protest against the Polish governments decision to accept migrants from Syria and North Africa, in Warsaw, Poland, September12, 2015. EU President Donald Tusk said he would call a special summit on the migration crisis if the bloc's interior ministers do not display “solidarity and unity” at emergency talks on 14 September about the thousands of migrants streaming into Europe. (Photo by Jacek Turczyk/EPA)